- January 13th, 2017, 10:01 am
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Listen - this is one of the most frustrating things that Liberty has to figure out. Not to toot my own horn (because it was a team effort), but when Prototype was in-charge of getting the Vines filled up - we did it. We averaged over 5,000 fans a game and had the students back engaged.
It's NOT about winning!! It's about pride, providing a fun/entertaining atmosphere for free, and creating a connection between players and fans. We worked to make sure students knew that it was game day. We put up posters every home game, we setup in Cafeteria and promoted the game on game days. We gave a lot of stuff away!! We bought a bulk shipment of Game Cubes (which were very popular at the time, and really not expensive) and gave away a few at each game. We tried to make it a more appealing option than Movies 10...
We educated students about who the players are and made opportunities for student s to connect with them. We made sure that we push Jerry and other leaders at convo to push game attendance and what it means to the school.
We concentrated solely on getting students back and guess what - the paying fans started coming, because they liked the atmosphere and watching the crazy students. We educated students the first week of the season on chants and things we could do as fans to get on other team and make it more unison.
I worked for 5 years with the Bullets/Wizards/Caps and Susan O'Malley, who was President while I was there and was amazing, used to always say - we have to create success that transcends wins and loses, because we cannot control that. And while I was there, both teams were always in top 5 in attendance and both teams where under 500, all but one year.
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